Teffola Blog

 In 2021, Dr. Kristine Nichols, a soil microbiologist and regenerative agriculture expert, estimated that out of 895 million acres of agriculture o...

It's harvest time! Just not for teff.  If you follow us on Instagram and remember back in June I spoke about our struggles with the dry spring. A w...

We’re talking with soil health expert Dr. Gregg Sanford! He works in the Department of Agronomy at University of Wisconsin - Madison and has publis...

Maple Drive Farms, the official name of our farm, has been predominantly a cash crop farm from the beginning. That means that we sell our crops (co...

We’re entering our, hopefully, last month of construction! Now that the insulation has gone in (all thanks to some very warm days in January) and a...

We get this question a lot. And while it is a yes or no question, there’s much more that goes into it. Here are the facts: No we aren’t organic. We...

We’ve officially broken ground on the cleaning and processing facility! There used to be two silos that had to come down to make room for the new b...

My parents have been debating this new barn/facility for several months. It’s a big decision. 2,400 square feet and nearly two stories high would g...

Our first year planting teff on our family farm in southern Michigan.

Move over millet, amaranth and bulgur - there’s a new obscure ancient grain on the scene. Teff, or eragrostis tef, is the world’s tiniest grain native to Ethiopia.